"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Recreation and Sports
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Recreation and Sports Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Recreation and Sports
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Recreation and Sports Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Recreation and Sports
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Recreation and Sports
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Recreation and Sports I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Recreation and Sports
